Re: chown xxx.yyy, POSIX, and LSB

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:42:58PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>    /* If there is no colon, then see if there's a `.'.  */
> >> -  if (separator == NULL && posix2_version () < 200112)
> >> +  if (separator == NULL && (posix2_version () < 200112 ||
> >> +                      !getenv ("POSIXLY_CORRECT")))
> >
> > Please consider using a different environment variable.
> > Setting POSIXLY_CORRECT should not make an otherwise-POSIX-conforming
> > program like GNU chown *non*conforming.
> 
> Setting the variable would mean that "." *wouldn't* be recognized,
> AFAICT.  If it's *not* set, then "." is considered as a separator.

Precisely -- this is what I tried to say in words, and then with the
code. :-)

The intent is to make 'POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 chown ...' behave as in
unpatched coreutils-5.2.0.

Tim.
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